Archive: August 2019

Year 3 News

Monday 12th of August, the Year 3’s had an excursion to Scienceworks, as we have been learning about Night and Day Science.  We attended the Planetarium and watched the movie Tilt. We were lucky enough to view all the other exhibitions and overall had a very fun day. In Literacy we have been learning about…

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Empowered Sleep Program – Week 1

We are almost complete with our first week of the program. The children (and teachers!) have been closely monitoring their behaviours and choices that impact on a good quality night sleep. One way of measuring how your sleep has been, is checking in with how you feel in the morning. Do you bounce out of…

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Honesty at TPS

Over the next four weeks, TPS will be focusing on the value of Honesty. Many students think honesty means you “don’t tell a lie”– and that is definitely part of being honest. But honesty means more than not lying. If something you do is breaking the law or if you have to hide what you…

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Head lice is not nice!

One thing we can all unanimously agree on is that we all hate lice! It’s frustrating, annoying and time consuming…and even if you don’t have lice, just the thought of it makes you feel like you’re crawling with them! It’s one of those things that can be pretty persistent at primary schools, so we have…

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Art Space- Foundation

Our Foundation students have been excitedly working away on these fantastic Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ inspired mixed media ‘masterpieces’. The entire project was created in three lessons, and embodies various learned and newly developed artistic skills and techniques; paper collage, crayon/water colour resist, acrylic painting and finished with a simple printmaking process. All students were understandably…

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Footy Colours Day

Footy Colours Day is a fundraising day which can be held on any day in September and TPS will hold ours on the last day of term – Friday 20 September. (Only eight days from the AFL Grand Final.) Wear your favourite footy (or other sporting teams) colours and bring a gold coin donation for…

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